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| Wheat is the leading grain crop in Kansas. | In Kansas, farmers grow sunflowers as a crop. | |
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| Milo is a Kansas grown feed grain |
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| Bison were so plentiful in mid-1800s Kansas that it was often necessary to stop the train and shoot into the herd to drive them off the rails | Seven million Texas longhorns were shipped between 1875 and 1885 from Dodge City, Kansas |
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| Kansas has always been livestock country | A commercial livestock feed yard in Kansas |
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| Kansas: State flower--sunflower; State animal--buffalo; State bird--Western Meadowlark |
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| Pawnee Rock Monument | The Kansas Prairie |
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| "Off to see the Wizard" | The famous Dodge City |
Dodge City, Kansas was known as Buffalo City and Hide Town
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| Wyatt Earp 1848-1929 | Doc Holliday 1851-1887 | Bat Masterson |
"There have been many things in my life that I have striven to forget,
but not those journeys over the Santa Fe Trail. My life, as I look back, seems to
have been lived best in those days on the trail." Marian Russell
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| Because wood was scarce on the prairie, buffalo "chips" were burned for cooking and heating |
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